The Sandman was one of Vertigo's flagship titles, and is available as a series of ten t The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and drawn by Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Jill Thompson, Shawn McManus, Marc Hempel and Michael Zulli and more, with covers by Dave McKean. Beginning with issue #47, it was placed under the imprint Vertigo.
Ikebana comes from the word ikeru, a Japanese term that translates to âliving,â âarrange flowersâ or âkeep alive.â Flower in Japanese is hana. With the combination of these two terms, the translation could be âarranging flowersâ or âgiving life to flowers.â.
Ikebana - Flower Arranging. While flower arrangement for many people in the West consists of symmetrically arranging flowering plants in a vase, Japanese Ikebana (literally 'flowers kept alive') is a lot more complex. There are many schools, of which the most popular are Ikenobo, Sogetsu and Ohara.